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A new museum is officially landing in Los Angeles this fall and it’s from one George Lucas.
After years of anticipation, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will finally open inside Exposition Park on September 22, 2026, bringing with it everything from Norman Rockwell paintings and vintage comics to movie props, anime art and illustrations from Winnie-the-Pooh.
(Essentially, imagine if a fine art museum, a comic-book archive, a Hollywood prop warehouse and your childhood bookshelf all lived together in one very futuristic-looking building.)
The massive new institution was co-founded by George Lucas and business executive Mellody Hobson and will focus entirely on narrative art. The museum says its inaugural exhibitions will feature more than 1,200 works pulled from a founding collection of over 40,000 objects, spread across 30 galleries and roughly 100,000 square feet of exhibition space.
Visitors can expect galleries devoted to children’s literature illustrations, manga and anime, comics and graphic novels, Western myths, photography, cinematic storytelling and classic American illustration; artists will include everyone from Frida Kahlo, Jacob Lawrence, Diego Rivera, Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth, along with comic legends like Jack Kirby, Alison Bechdel and Frank Miller. There’s also an entire section dedicated to movie production art and costumes from the Lucas Archives.
The museum itself is just as ambitious as the collection. Designed by Beijing-based MAD Architects in collaboration with Stantec, the 300,000-square-foot structure vaguely resembles a spaceship. The surrounding 11-acre campus, designed by landscape architect Mia Lehrer, will include gardens and outdoor community spaces integrated directly into Exposition Park.
The institution describes narrative art as “the people’s art,” highlighting forms like illustration, comics and popular media that haven’t always been embraced by traditional museums. Which means this may be one of the rare major art museums where a vintage comic panel, a fantasy illustration and a Renaissance painting are all treated with equal reverence.
And honestly, that sounds a lot more fun than another room full of abstract beige squares.